Former Wall Street Journal columnist: Joplin Globe may be among Pulitzer Prize winners

Joplin Globe staff will find out this afternoon whether their coverage of the May 22 tornado will receive a Pulitzer Prize.

At least one major journalism organization has tabbed the Globe's coverage as an entry that may be cited when the awards are announced at 2 p.m. at Columbia University.

In an article published Friday on Poynter, former Wall Street Journal columnist Roy J. Harris Jr., who will conduct an online chat Tuesday morning on the Washington Post website about the results, listed the Globe as a Pulitzer possibility:

One such 2012 consideration may relate to its controversial decision not to name a Breaking News winner last year. That suggests a mission to “restore” that important category. Work honored by other award programs includes the Arizona Republic’s coverage of the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, and the Joplin Globe’s coverage of a devastating tornado in its southwestern corner of Missouri.